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THE HUIeON EX.POSITO.R
SEPTEMBER 10, 1897. -
Up to dune 1897.
2Stearn s
Bicycles
And 162 Gold Watches
Given Away
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IN CANADA, MIS YEAR, FOR
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cles and 27 Watches, will be given
away every month up to December 1897.
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LEVER BROTHERS, Limited,
23 Scott St, Toronto.
' REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
lTitlaRMS FOR RATE. -The naadersigned has twenty
Choioe Farms for sale In East Huron, the ban-
ner County of the Province A all sizes, and prices to
suit. For full information,kwrite or call personally.
No ttouble to show them. I F; S. SCOTT, Brussels
P0. 1391-tf
ARM FOR SA -100,ra, n the township of
_ Grey, near Brussels. There is on it nearly 60
acres of bush, about half black ash, the rest hard-
wood. A. never -failing spring of water runs through
the lot. Will be sold at a big bargain. For particu-
lars, apply to KIM JANE WALKER, Box 219,
- Bruesele. 1470
TIOR SALE. -That valuable property s:tuated on
_12 the east side of north Main street'Seaforth.
This property consiste of four lots, and a fine d
in house, containing a dining mon,parlor, 4 bed
rooms, kitchen and zellar. There is also • a fine
etable, carriage house, store house• and wood shed.
The grounds are pleasant and well shaded. ; also well
planted with froot trees, and small fruits, hard and
soft water. For terms apply on the premises. M.
ROBERTSON, Seaforth. 1535-tf
" MIAMI FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 6, concession 12,
r township of 'libber% containing 100 acres of
good land in a good state of cult,vetion. Well
fenced; good brick home ; good bank barn and out
buildings • 18 acres of fall %veva, and ploughing all
done; 2 good wells and 2 never falling springs ; 85
scree cleared; possession at any time. For further
Regicidal*, apply to PETER MELVILLE, Cromarty
P. O. Ontario. 1525-tf
'CIARM FOR SALE, 100 ACRES. -Being lot 18,
_U concession 7, township of Grey, one mile west
of Ethel 512 from Brussels. Ninety-five Sores
cleared; free of stumps and stones; well under -
drained and fenced with straight fences; goad brick
hotiee and good outbuildings ; '15 acres in fail wheat
awl 50 acres seeded down. Will be sold cheap and
on eaay terms. A. McKELVEY, Brussels.
1627tf
1GIOR SALE. -A valuable fruit and grain farm,
J on *good road, within six miles ' of Clinton.
The Lot is No. 67, Maitland Concession, Goderich
township, and oontains 75 acres. It yields annually
from 80 to 100 burets of winter apples, and is a good
grain farm, the land being a No..1 clay loam. There
is a No. 1 frame house on the Lot, a good barn with
stone stabling underneath, and it is well watered in
every field. A large portion of the purchase money
may remain on mortgage. For terme, etc., apply to
THOMAS BURNS, Carlow P. 0., or to W. W. FAR.
RAN, Clieton. 153641
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WARM FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 36, concession
r 2, Kinlose, containing 100 mares, 85 cleared and
tha balance in good hardwood btu. The land Is in
a good state of cultivation, is well underdrained end
well fenced. There is a frame barn and log house on
the property, a never -failing spring with windmill,
also about 2 ac -es of orchard. It is an exrellent
farm and, is within one mile of Whitechurch station,
where there - are stores, blacksmith shop and
churches. There is a school on the oppoeits lot. It
ie six miles fronx Wingham and six from :Lucknow,
with good roach leading in all directions. This de-
, table property will be sold on reaeonable terms.
further particulars apply to JAMES MITCHELL,
P. O. . 14854504-tf
IGIOR SALE OR TO RENT ON EASY TERMS. -
As the owner wishes to retire from business on
account of ill health, the following valuable preperty
at Winthrop, 4.} miles north of Seaforth, on leading
road tri Brunel% will be sold or rented as one farm
or in pans to suit purchaser : about 600 acres of
splendid farming land, with about 400 under °Top,
the balance in pasture. There are large barns and
all other buildings „neceseaty for the implements,
veh121ee, eta. Th.W land is well wateeed, hoz good
frame and briok dwelling houses, etc. There are
grist and saw mills and store which will be sold or
rented on advantageous terms. Also on 17th con-
cession, Grey towaship, 190 acres of land, 40 in
paeture, the •balance in timber. Posseselon given
after harvest of farm lands; mills at once. For par-
tioulars apply to ANDREW GWEN LOCK, Winthrop.
1486 -ti
PURE PEA MEAL
a TrIX1.11..1=;
Ten tons at a very' reasonable price,
in exchange for Oats or Peas.
Seaforth Oatmeal Mills.
15194 -f
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Paesenger.... •
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'onu EAST-
assenger..
assenger..
-Mixed Train., ..
SMAYORTEI. Curros.
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9.20 A. M. 10.15 A. M.
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Wellington, Grey and Bruce.
GOING NORTH- Passenger.
Ethel ..... 9.49. r. M.
Brussels.. .. 10.01
Bluevale_ 1.01
Wingham.... i. 10.26
Gower Boum-- Passenger.
Winghain ............ 6.60r, A. et.
BInavale .......... 7.00 ,
7.28
Brussels-- ..
Ethel- .. . ..
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Mixed.
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THE LABOR STRIKES.
REV. DR. TAILMAGE ON EMPLOYES
AND EMPLOYED.
He Thinks the Law of Supply and Demand
is a Diabolical Ono and Sees No Remedy
For the Labor Troubles Save by the Ap-
plication of the Gospel.
Washington, Sept. 5. -Dr. Talmage's
plan for settling the industrial troubles
of our day is set forth in .this sermon.
His text is Matthew vii, 12, "Whatsoever
ye wieuld that men should do, do you
even so to them."
The greatest war the world has ever
fieen is between capital and labor. The
strife is not like that which in history is
'called the Thirty Years' war, for - it is a
War of centuries; It is a war of the five
continents; it is a war hemispheric. The
middle classes in. this country, upon
Whom the nation has depended for hold-
ing the balance of power and for tinting
as mediators between the two extremes,
lire diminishing, and if things go -on at
the same ratio as they are now going, it
will not be very long before there will
be no middle class in this country, but
all will be very rich or very poor, princes
or paupers, and the country will be given
up to palaces and hovels.
A Great Conflict.
The antagonist -ie forces are closingdin
upon each other. The Pennsylvania
miners' strike, the telegraph operators'
strikes, the railroad- employes' strikes,
the movements of the boycotters and the
avnanaiters, are only skirmishes before a
general engagement, on if you prefer it,
escapes through the safety valves of an
explosion of society. Yon May poohpooh
It; you rimy say that this troubte, like
the angry child, will cry itself to sleep;
• you may belittle it by calling it Four-
ierism, or socialism or St. Simonism, or
nihilism, or communism. but that will
not hinder the faot that it is the mighti-
est, the darkeet, the most terrific threat
• of this century. All attempts at pacifica-
tion have been dead failures and mon-
• opoly is more - arrogant and the trades
unions more bitter. "Give us more
wages," ory the employes. "You shall
have less," say the capitalists. "Compel
us to do fewer hours of toil in a day."
"You shall toil more hours," say the
others. "Then, under certain condition,
we will not work at all," say these.
"Then you shall starve," say those, and,
the ei orkmen gradually using up that
which they accumulated in better times,
unless there be some radical change we
shall have soon in this country 4,000,000
hungry men and evonien. Now, 4,000,000
hungry people cannot be kept quiet. All
the enactments of legislatures and all
'the constabularies of the cities, semi all
• the army and navy of the United States
cannot keep 4,000,000 hungry people
quiet. Wbat then? Will this war between
capital and labor be settled by human
wisdom? Never. The brow of the one
becomes more rigid, the fist of the other
more clinched.
But that which human wisdom cannot
achieve will be accomplished by Chris-
tianity if it be given full sway. You
- have heard of medicines so powerful that
one drop will stop a disease and restore
a patient, and I have to tell you that one
diem of my text, properly administered,
will stop all these woes of society and
give convalescence and complete health
to all classes. "Whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do you wren so to
them."
I Shall first show you how this quar-
rel between monopoly and hard work
oannot be stopped, and then I will show
you how this controversy will be settled.
• Futile remedies. In the first place,
there will come no pacification to this
trouble through an outcry against rioh
men merely because they are rich. There
Is no member of a trades union on earth
that would not he rich if he could. Some-
times through a' fortunate invention or
through some accident of prosperity a
man who had nothing comes tO a large
estate, and we see him arrogant and
supercillious and taking people by the
throat, just as other people took him by
the throat. There is something very
mean about human nature when it comes
to_the top, but it is no more a sin to be
rich than it is a sin to be poor. There are
• those who have gathered a great estate
through fraud, and then there are mil-
_
lionaires who have gathered their for-
tunes through foresight in regard to
changes in the markets an d through
brilliant business faculty, and every dol-
lar of their estate is as honest as the
dollar which the plumber gets for mend-
ing a pipe or the mason gets for build-
ing a wall. There are those who keep in
poverty because of their 'own fault. They
• might have been well off, but they gave
themselves to strong drink, or they
smoked or chewed up their earnings, or
they lived beyond their means, while
others an the same wages and on the
same salaries went on to competency. I
know a MOM who is all the time com-
plaining of his poverty and crying out
• against rich men, while he himself keeps
two dogs and chews and smokes and is
filled to the chin with whisky and beer.
F ut I le Effer-ts.
• Micawber said to David Copperfield:
"Copperileld, My boy, Ll income.' 20
shillings and 6 pence expenses; result,
misery. But, Copperfield, my boy, Al
income, expenses 19 shillings and 6
pence; result, happiness." An there are
vast multitudes of people who are kept
poor because they are the viotiros of their
own improvidencie. It is no sin to be
rich, and it is no sin to be poor. I pro-
test against this outcry which I hear
against those who, through economy and
self denial and assiduity, have come to
large fortune. This bombardment of
commercial SUCCOSS will never stop this
quarrel between capital and labor.
Neither will the contest be settled by
cynical and unsympatheic treatment of
the laboring °lessee. There are those who
speak of them as though they were only
cattle or draft horses. Their nerves are
nothing, their domestic comfort is noth-
ing, their happiness h nothing. They
have no more sympathy for them than a
hound has for a hare, or a hawk for a
hen, or a tiger for a calf. When Jean
Valjean, the greatest hero of Victor
Huge's writings, lifter a life of suffering
and brave endurance, goes into incarcera-
tion and death, they clap the book shut
and say, "Good for him!" They stamp
their feet with indignation and say just
the epposite of “Save the working class-
es." They have all their sympathies with
fthylook, and not with Antonio and
Portia. They are plutoorats, and their
feelings are infernal. They are filled with
irritation and irascibility on this subjeot.
To step this awful imbroglio between
capital end labor they will 1116 not so
muoh as the tip end of the little finger.
Neither will there be any pacification
of this angry controversy through vio-
lence. • God never blessed.murder.
The poorest use you can put a: man to
Is to kill him. Blow up to -morrow all
the country seats on- the banks Of the
Hudson, and all the fine houses on
Madison square, and Brooklyn Heights,
and Bunker Hill, and Rittenhouse
square, and Beacon street, and ell the
bricks and timbers and stone will just
tolljac1 j tha hare head 9.1_ AirtgkloaP
London, Huron a4k1 Bruce.
GOOn NORTH-- Passenger. -
London, depert.........,J 8.15 A.m. 4.45 P.M.
Centralia. - ... .... . .. .. . • 9.18 5.57
Exeter.. - .... .. . ... .. .. 9 30 6.07
Henan. 9.44 6 18
KIPPen. -.- - , - - ....... 9.50 6.25
Brucefield- ...... . . ... 9.68 6.83
Clinton 10.15 6.55
• Underfloor° - ..... .... 10.33 7.14
BeAve.,.... , .4. . 10 66 7 E7
Bl.............. .. .. • , 10.41 7.23
Winghath arrive..... . 11.10 8.00
GOING 8OUT11-, 1 Paseenger.
• Wingham,liepart.... 6.58 A.M. 3.30 e. tr.
Beigrave........ .. .. - . • 7.04 8.45
Myth.. - .... .... , 7.16. 4 00
Londesboro..... .... . • 7.24 4.10
Clititon.,. , . 7.47 4 30
Brucefield 806 4.50
KIPP8 1-
8.17 4.69
}Ica sell_ ..... .... 8.24 5.04
f roster •. 8.88 5.16
Centralia 8.60 5.25
laldfiur (arriiro)•••• 1 • -WA. 6.30
-IMF. The -Wow enemies -di -the weititing.
-classes in the *United States and Ireland
are their demented coadjutors Assassin-
ation -the assassination of Lord Fred-
erick Cavendish and Mr. Burke -
Phoenix park, Dublin, Ireland, in the
attempt to avenge the vrrongatof Ireland,
only turned away from that afIlicted
people millions of sympathizers. The
attempt to blow up the House of Com-
mons in Lendon, had only this effect -
to throw out of employment. tens of
thousands of innocent peoPirrlt England.
In this country the torch put to the
factories that have discharged bands for
good or bad reasons; olstriictions on the
rail track in front of midnight express
trains because the offenders' do not like
the president of the company; strikes on
shipboard the hour they were going to
sail, or in printing offices the hour the
paper was to go to press, or in mines the
day the coal wee to be delivered, or on
house scaffoldings so the builder fails in
keeping his contrad-all these are only
a hard blow on the head of American
labor, and cripple its arms and lame its
feet and pierce its heart. Traps sprung
• suddenly upon employers, and violence.
never took one knot out of the knuckle
of toil or out ono farthing- of wages into
a eallous palm. Barbarism will never
cure the wrongs of civilization. Mark
that! •
Frederick the Great admired some and
near his place at Potedam, and he re-
solved to get it. It was owned by a mil-
ler. He offered the miller three times
the value of the property. the .miller
would not take it because it was the old
homestead, and be felt about as Nahoth
felt about his vineyard when .Ahab
wanted it. Frederick the Great was a
rough and terrible num, and he ordered
the miller into his presence, and the
king, with a stick in hishand-a stick
with which he sometimes struck 'his
officers of state -said to this 'oilier,
"Now, I have offered you three times the
value of that property, and if you won't
sell it, I'll take it anyhow." The miller
said, " Your majesty, you won't."
,"Yes," said the king, "I will take it."
"Then," said the miller, "if your ma-
jesty does take it, I will sue you in the
'chancery court." At that threat Fred-
erick the Great yielded his inftunous de-
mand. And the most imperious outrage
against the working classes will yet
cower before the law. Violence and con-
trary to the law will never accomplish
anything, but righteousness and accord-
ing to the law will aboomplish it.
Lookin= for Helier.,
Well, if this zontroversy between capi-
tal and labor cannot be settled by human
Wisdom, if to -day capital and labor stand
with their thumbs on each other's -throat
-as they do -it is time for us to look
somewhere elee for relief, and it points
from my text roseate and jubilant, and
puts one hand on the broadcloth shoulder
of capital and puts the other on the
homespun covered shoulder of toil and
nye, with a voice that will • grandly 'and
gloriously settle this and settle every-
thing, "Whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do you even so to
them." That is, the lady of the house-
hold_Will say:- "I must treat the niaid
In the kitchen -just as I would like to be
treated if I were down stairs and it were
my work to wash and cook and sweep,
and it 'were the duty of the maid in the
kitchen to preside in this parlor." The
maid in the kitchen must say: "If my -
employer seems to be more prosperous
than I that is no fault of hers. I shall
not treat her as an enemy. I will have
the same industry and fidelity down
stairs as I would expect from my subor-
dinates if I happened to be the wife of a
silk importer." .
- The owner: of on iron mill, having
taken a dose of my text before leaving
home in the morning, will go -into his
foundry, and passing into what it called
the puddling room, he will see a man
there stoipped to the waist and besweated
and exhausted with the labor and the
toil, and he *Will say to • him: "Why, it
seems to be yery hot in here. You look
very much eahausted. I hear your child
is sick with scarlet fever. If you want
your wages a little earlier this week, so
as to pay the nurse and get the medi-
cines, just come into my office any time."
After awhile crash goes the money
inarket, and there is no more demand
for the articles manufactured in that
iron mill, and the owner does not know
what to do. He says, "Shall I stop the
mill or shall I run it on half time, or
shall I cut down the men's wages?" He
walks the floor of his counting room all
day, hardly knowing what to do. To-
ward evening he calls all the laborers to-
getherr They stand all around, sonie
with arms akimbo, some with folded
arms, wondering what the boss Is going
todo now. The manufacturer says:
en, Mines are very hard. I don't make
0 where I used to make $100. Some-
how there is no demand now for what
we manufacture, or but very little de -
mad. You see I an at vast expense,
and I have called you together this after-
noon to see what you would advise. I
don't want to shut up the rnill, because
that would force you out of work, and
you have, always been very faithful, and
I like you. and you seem to like me, and
the bairns must bo- looked after, and
your wife will after awhile want a new
dress. I don't know what to do."
There is a dead halt for a minute or
two and then one of the workmen steps
out from the ranks of his fellows and
says: "Boss; you have been very good to
us, and when you prospered we prosper-
ed, and now you are in a. tight place and
I am sorry, and we have got to sympa-
thize with you. I don't know how the
others feel, but I propoee that we take
off 20 per cent. from out wages, and that
when the times get good you will re-
member us and raise them again." The
workman looks around to his comrades
and says: "Boys, what do you say to
this? Ali in favor of my proposition will
say aye." "Aye, aye, aye!" shout 200
voicuet.
B
the iuihl owner, getting in some
new machinery, exposes himself very
much, ad takes cold, and it settles into
pneurntipia, anti he dies. In the proces-
sion bathe tomb are all the workmen,
tears rolling down their cheeks and off
on the ground, but an hour before the
prooession gets to the,cometery the wines
and the children of those workmen are
at -the grave waiting for the arrival of
the funeral pageant. The minister of
religion may have delivered an eloquent
eulogium before they started from the
house, but the most impressive things
are said that day by the working classes
standing around the tomb.
- Christ's Injunction,.
That night in all the cabins of the
working people where they have family
prayers the widowhood and the orphan-'
se in the mansion are remembered. No
• g populations look over the. iron
fence f the cemetery; but, hovering over
the s en ;the benediction of Godand
rpn is oming for the fulfillment of the
Christlike injunction, "Whatsoever ye
Would that 'men should do ,to you, do
you even, so to them."
"Oh,' says some man here "that is
all Utopian, that Is apocryphal, that is
im.poeslkirta" Ne. 1 cut out of a paper
this: "00 of the pleasantest incidents
recorded'in a long time is reported from
Sheffield, England. The wager; of the
men in the iron- works at Sheffielli are
rAtnilat*d .1tY.a •board of arbitration. bv
ilrffditt dedirldif bah niatiters and men
are bound. For some time past the iron
and• steel trade has been extremely un-
profitable, and , the employers cannot,
Without much loss, pay the wages fixed
by the board, which neither employes
nor employed havetthe power to change.
To avoid the difiloulty, the workmen in
one of the largest steel works in Sheffield
hit up -oh a device as rare as it was gen-
erous. They offered to wor* for their
.
employers- one week without any pay
whatever."
But you go with ,me and I twill show
you -not so far off as Sheffield, England
-facithries. banking -houses, storehouses
and cestly enterprises where this Christelike injunction of ray text is fully kept,
and you could no more get the employer
to practice an injustice upon his men, or
the men to conspire against the employer,
. than you could get your right hand and
your left hantd, your right eye and your
left eye, your right ear and your left
ear, into physiological antagonism. Now,
where is this to begin? In our bomes, in
our stores, on our farms -not waiting
for other poeple to do their duty. Is
there a divergencanow between the par-
lor and -the kitchen? Then there is some-
thing 'wrong, either in the parlor or the
kitchen, perhaps in both. Arethe clerks
In your- store irate against the firm?
Then there is something wrong, either
behind the counter, or in . the private.
office, or perhaps' in both.
The great want of the world to -day 18
the fulfillment of this Christ -like injunc-
tion, that which he promulgated in his
sermon Olivetic. All the political &Ion -
°mats under, the archivault of the hea-
vens in convention for 1,000 years cannot
• settle this controversy between monopoly
and hard •work, between capital and
labor: During the Revolutionary war
there was a heavy piece of timber to be
lifted, perhaps for some fortress, and a
corporal was overseeing the work, and
he was giving commands to some sold-
iers as they lifted: "Heave away, there!
Yo heave!" Well, the timber was too
heavy; they. could not get it up. There
was a gentleman riding by on a horse,
and he stopped and said to this corporal:
"Why don't you help them lift? That
timber is too heavy for them to lift."
"No," he said, "I won't; I ani a cor-
poral." The gentleman got off bis horse
• And came up to the place. '"Now," he
said to the soldiers, "all together -yo
heave!" and •the timber went to its
place.. "Neer," said the gentleman to
the corporal, "when you have a piece of
timber too heavy. for the men to lift, and
you want help, send to your commander-
in-chief." It was Washington, Now, that.
is about all the gospel I know -the gos-
pel of giving somebody a lift,' a lift out
of darkness, a life out of earth into hea-
ven. That is all the gospel 1 know -the
gospel:of helping somebody else to life.
Supply and Demand.
"Oh," says some wiseacre, "talk as
you will, -the law of demand and supply
will regulate these things until. the end
of time." No, they Will not, unless God
dies and the batteries of the judgment
day are spiked, and Pluto and Proser-
pine, .kingand queen of the infernal
regions, take full possession of this
world. • Do you, know who supply and
demand are? They have gone into part-
nership, and they propose to swindle this
earth and are swindling it; You are
drowning. Supply land demand stand on •
the shore, one on one side, the other on
the other side of the lifeboat, and they
/cry out to ye% "Now, you pay us what
we ask you for getting you to earth, or
go to the bottom!" If you can borrow
$5,000 you can keep from failing in busi-
ness.- Supply and demand say, "Now,
you pay us exorbitant usurY, or you go
into rbankrutpcy.". This robber firm of
supply and demand . say to. you: "The
crops are short. We bought up .all the
wheat and it is in our bin. Now, you
pay our price or starve." That is your
magnificent law of supply and demand.
Supply and demand own the largest
mill on earth, and all the rivers roll over
their wheel, and into their hopper they
put all the men,women and children
they can shovel out of the centuries, and
the blood and the , bones redden the val-
ley while the mill grinds. That diabolic
law of supply and demand -will yet have
to stand aside, and instead there will
come the law of love, the law of cooper-
ation, the law of . kindnese, the law of
sympathy, the law of . Christ. Have you
no idea of the coming of such a time?
Then you de not believe the Bible. All
.the Bible is full of promises on this sub-
ject, and as the ages roll on the time
will'comeWhen men of fortune will be
giving larger sums to humanitarian and
evangelistic purposes, and there will be
more James Lenoxes and Peter Coopers
and William :E. Dodges and George Pea-
• bodys. As that time comes there will be
more parks, more picture galleries, more
gardens thrown open for the holiday
people and the working classes.
I was reading in regard to a charge
that had been made in England -against
Lambeth palace that it was exclusive,
and that 'charge demonstrated the sub-
lime faot that to the grounds of that
wealthy estate spo poor families have.
free passes and 40 eroquet companies,
and on the half holidays 4,000 poor peo-
ple aeoline on the grass. walk through
the paths and sit under the trees. That
is gospel -gospel on the wing, gospel
out of doors worth just as much as in-
-doors. Viet time is going to come. That
is only :& hint of what is going to be. The
time ie going to come when, if you have
anything in your house worth looking
at-ploturee, pieces of sculpture -you are
going to Invite me to come and see them,
you are going to invite my friend to
come and see them, and you will say,
"See what I'have been blessed with. God
has aiven me this. and so far as enjoying
it, it is yours also." That is gospel. •
A Sublime Posture.
In 'crossing the Allegheny mountains
many years ago the stage halted and
Menu .Clay- dismounted front the stage
and went out on a rock at the very verge
of the oliff, and he stood there with his
cloak wrapped about him, and he seemed
to be listened for something. Some one
said to him, "What are you listening
for?" Standing there on the top of the
mountain he said, "I ara listening to
the tramp of the footsteps of the coming
millions of this continent." .A 'sublime,
posture for an American statesman! You
and I to -day stand on the mountain top
of privilege, and on the Rook of Ages,
and we look off, apd we bear awning
from the future the happy industrietrand
smiling populations, and the consecrated
fortunes, and the innumerable prosperi-
ties of the closing nineteenth and the
opening twentieth century.
The great ,patriot of France, Victor
Hugo, died. The $10,000 in. his will given
to the poor of the city was only a hint
of the work he did fot all nations and
for all times. r wonder not that. they
allowed 11 dime to pass between his death
and his burial, his body, meantime kept
under triumphal arch, for the world
could hardly afford to let' go this man
who for more than eight decades had toy
his unparalleled genius blessed it. Hie
name shall be a terror toren despots, apd
an.encouragement to thestrugding. Be
made the world!! burden Iighttit, and its
darkness less dense,- and its chain less
galling, and its! thrones of Luigi:My less
secure.
But VictoirHngo Was not the overtow-
Siring friend otrnankind. The greatest
friend of capitalist and toiler. and_ the
one Who willet1f1ki3 thient togeilibt 111
•complete accord, was born one Christmas
night while • the °Urbane of heaven
swung, stirred by the ,wings angelic.
owner -i)f all things -all the continents,
all worlds, and all the islands Of light.
Capitalist of tmmensity, crossing over to
our condition. Conning into our world,
not by gate of palace, but by doer of
barn. Spending his Best night amid the
shepherds. Gathering afterward around
hiba the fishermen to be his chief attend-
ants. With adz, and. eaw, and chisel,
and az, and in a carpenter sleep showing
himself brother with the tradesmen.
Owner of all things, and yet on a hillock
back of Jerusalem one day resigning
everything few others, keeping not so
much as a shekel to pay for his obse-
quies, by charity buried in the suburbs
of a city that had cast him out. Before
the cross of such a'capitalist, and such a
carpenter, all men can afford .to shake
hands and worship. Here is the every
• man's Christ. None so high, but he was
higher. None so poor, tut he was poorer.
At his feet the hostile extremes will • yet
renounce their animosities, and counten-
ances which have glowered with the
prejudices and revenge of centuries shall
brighten with the smile of heaven as he
commands, "Whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do you even so to
them,"
he Corcoran Gallery of Art.
In trh new home which has been epro-
vided for the eollection of works of art
formed by the late William Wilson Cor-
coran and added- to by gift, loan and
purchase, there is at last an opportunity
for intelligent and profitable study. The
_architect has made excellent provision
for the esssential requisites of space and
light, and by treating the interior with
a dignified and broad simplicity has se-
cured for the exhibits a noble setting.
The bronze entrance doors in the center
ot the longitudinal facade open. into a
vestibule,from which marble steps as-
cend to the atrium. This, as the name
implies, is open to the skylight and is
flanked .by .two 'halls -. 85 feet in lengtlea
which communicate with moldier rooms
-the *hole floor, .with the exception of
a part devoted to the boardroom, library
and office, forming an impressive sculp-
ture gallery. Here are displayed the very
complete collection of casts from the
antique, the smaller but fairly represent-
ative collection of replicas of renaissance
sculpture, and ,a magnificent array of
Barye bronzes, said to be the largest in
existence.
Around the atrium- stand 40 Doris
3o1umns of Indiana litnestone, surmount-
ed by a gallery,frone which rises another
order of columns -in - this • case Ionic -
which support the roof: Frone this gal-
lery extend the various rooms occupied
.
by the paintings and exhibits of clefs-
.
- onne, porcelain and glass and electrotype
reproductions. The collection of pictures
includes a large number of .portraits
which possess igreat historical interest,
and in some craws artistic merit.. For the
-rest, the motive of the collector was
rather to buy what pleased hap than to
complete a representative colleetion. The
old masters cap be .oteunied by ones and
twos. There te On example of the Italian
renaissance, and of American works
only a sprinkling, and these, with a few
exceptions, not, represenstative of our
best achievement. Still, Washington is
the Mecca of the people and the influence
of these galleries far-reaching and good,
and the increased accommodation will
no doubt stimulate 0 growth in the col-
lection itself.-Harper's Weekly.
*hat an (Meal.' Steamship Carries.
The famous steamship Greet Eastern,
historically associated with the first
efforts to lay Atlantic telegraph cables, -
has hitherto been regarded as the largest
vessel ever launched. Its laurels as a sea
•leviathan, however, are of late enden•
gered. The new freighter Pennsylvania,
although scarcely attaining the external
measurements of the- fernier celebrated
ship, will carry far more cargo. - The
capacity indeed of these new freight ships
is a matter for astoniehment to a lands-
man.
The Pennysivania, for example, is
rated at 20,000 tons burden and will
carry loads such as may be briefly item-
ized thus: 160,000 bushels of wheat in
bulk, equal to 320 car loads or 16 trains
of 20 cars each; 1,000 tons of flour, 80
carloads; 4,000 boxes of bacon, 75 car-
loads; 3,000'tierces of lard, 48 earleads;
1,300 bales of cotton, 40 oar loads; 1,200
head of live cattle, 80 oerloads, and 8,600
quarters of dressed beef.
In addition there will probably be a
thousand tons of miscellaneous merchan,
disc,. say 80 carloads more; in all not
less than 780 carloads or 39 long trains
of 20 bars each.
Nor is the -above by any means the en-
tire.loail of this modern ark. The Penn-
sylvania will have aocommodations for
from 800 to 1,000 -steerage passengers,
as also for a crew of 150 men and 50 cat-
tlemen, with food and fodder for all.
• In the fuel bins, too, there: be
carried a burden or 1;300 tons of *coal, or
:more than 100 carloads. .
If we were to say that the •entire agri-
cultural product of 60 New England
towns, or 20 western (mantles, could all
be stowed away in this mammoth ship,
we should not exceed the- facts -Youth's
Companion. -
To Try Our Faith.
Our Heavenly Father sends us fre-
quent troubles to try our faith. If our
faith be worth anything it will stand the
test. Gilt is afraid of fire''but Veld ls
not; the paste gem dreads to be triunhed
by the diamond, but the true jewel fears
se test.
•
--Mr. John Hession of Toronto, reporter
for Cycling, in Toronto, met with a very pe-
culiar accident on Wedneaday of last week.
He was going into St. Themes from Port
Stantey, and when close to the- city a dog
ran out at him.I Mr. Hession had a revol-
ver, and pulled* out of his pocket to shoot
the canine, but, instead,' he shot himself
in the leg at the thigh; the bullet barely
missing the main artery and embedding
itself four inches in the fleah.
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We wish we could make
everybody bplieve that
promptness is prevention;
that there should be no de-
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and when you are pale, espec-
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The continued use of Scott's
Emulsion in the early stages of
lung affections does prevent
the development of Con-
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tell you this is true and we
state it without wishing to
make any false claims or
false promises. Free book
tells more on the subject.
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The life and glOry of leather.
LATER sHot yousH
• Black or colored leather.
For Ladies, Gentletnens or
Childrens Shoes,
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It is poor. economy to buy cheap Tea, and use twice as much,
and not get half as much satisfaction as from a good one.
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Undertaking Department,
Our Undertaking department is complete in every respect, and as we
purchase from first,-ohtss manufacturers only, we can guarantee to give good
satisfaction in all its branches, as we have an Undertaker and Embalmer of
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the very best attention. Don't forget the old stand.
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Old Office on Main Street Seaforth.
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CLEARING •SALE
• Duling the month of August we will have a cheap clearing sale of all our
Summer Goods. This is your opportunity to secure bargains in . . .
Muslins, Dimities, Orepons,
Delaines, Ohallies, Gloves, Hosiery,
.... Ladies' Sailor Hats, Etc., Etc.,
Straw. Hats for Men, Boys and Children,
at a big reduction.
All the above mentioned goods are new and of the latest styles.
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